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by Michael Miner on June 4th 2008 - 11:10 a.m.

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Some articles lose us almost before they begin:

"On the day before the night he made history, Barack Obama shot hoops at the Back Bay Club in Chicago, and called the odd superdelegate or two . . . " from the front page of Wednesday's New York Times.


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Ramon
June 4th - 12:25 p.m.
Seriously. I stopped reading that same article 2 sentences in just to start googling the "Back Bay Club" in Chicago.
Windy City
June 4th - 12:46 p.m.
I did the same thing.
so-called "Austin Mayor"
June 4th - 1:06 p.m.
Maybe Obama had a "baby back club" somewhere in Chicago...

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so-called "Austin Mayor"
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Marc Darn
June 4th - 9:53 p.m.
Ditto. I believe the New York Times no longer maintains a bureau or a full time reporter in Chicago. Well they got Iraq and the WMD's all wrong, what do you expect?



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